performed the image acquisition. The OME-XML Schema was released in
January 2004, accepted by the European Light Microscopy Initiative as
a standards recommendation in 2005, and is natively supported by several
microscope manufacturers and software vendors.
OME-XML is not a new file format; it is a new set of meta-data. This meta-
data is written in Extensible Markup Language (XML) using a format
specified in XML Schema—a standard format-description language for XML
documents.
XML is a powerful format for interchanging images because XML is not
binary, but readable, plain text; the structure of XML documents is inherently
open, so it is possible to understand a new XML format even without the
governing schema; XML Schema provides an unambiguous description ...